Interracial love is explored in a new exhibition by the Moroccan artist Soufiane Ababri, whose evocative coloured pencil drawings will be shown at Berlin’s Dittrich & Schlechtriem on walls painted in different flesh tones. The show, Something New Under the Little Prince’s Body, takes its cue from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella The Little Prince, and reimagines the white, blonde central character landing on Earth and falling in love with an Arab man. Ababri’s works are both vulnerable and pulsing with sexual energy, with hot pink cheeks scrawled onto his subjects faces, tender kisses and graphic references. “In broaching the question of the emancipation of Arab and, ultimately, also of European gays from racist role models, Ababri is an absolute pioneer in the art world,” says the gallery. “He adopts a position of emphatic powerlessness to tell stories of violence, domination and marginalization.”
